Crista Earl: One of the problems with video in general on the internet is players are not all accessible and people have trouble getting to the controls with the keyboard on some of them. Some of them, if you have low vision you can't tell what's what. They're just little gray patches. All kinds of issues with the player.

So, we created an accessible player using HTML5 technology so that it would work with a lot of platforms, works with lots of browsers and cross-platform whether you are using a Mac or a PC, whether you're using a mobile device. And, it has this great change colors so if your website has a color scheme, a high contrast color scheme or various high contrast color schemes, the player will change with your website. So, users with low vision can make the controls more visible and users who use screen readers can find the controls easily.

We added keyboard shortcuts so in the middle of the video if you want to pause it, you can just hit the key command. It varies slightly from browser to browser to pause the video. You can make it full-screen or make it small on the page. the user has that option. So, we really think we put in a lot
of nice features to make playing videos easy, fun, and took all the hassle away from the user. And, a lot of hassle away from the web designer, too.

You don't have to build your own player. Now, your job is to make accessible content and put it in the player.

Downloading the Accessible player can be carried out by following the steps
below.

a. Access Click on the link below or copy the url to the clipboard. Then past the link to your browser's address bar.

b. click on okay and off you go to the site.

c. Move down to the link labeled as"downloadable zip file containing the AFB Accessible Player files and instructions."

d. Click the right mouse button.

e. Click on "save target as."

f. Navigate to where you wish to save the file and then click on save.

Below is the complete set of instructions entitled as "read me.txt" that is
found in the folder once uncompressing the downloaded folder.

AFB's Accessible Video Player

***What Is It?

A lightweight, responsive HTML5 video player that includes support for
keyboard and screen reader accessibility. Its appearance is
stylesheet-driven so it can support the user's size and contrast choices.
The video can also be expanded to a full screen, which is helpful for users
with low vision.

***Features

* It can be used as an embedded YouTube player or as a standard player.

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